I am curious whether there is some research available on the topic of how people deal with a long list of items. Do they sort first or filter first or it depends a lot on the context of the task and ...

I have a web application that has been responsively designed for mobile. While in a parent container you can apply filters to sort children. I am debating between two design types.
Option A:
This is ...

I need to create a table on a touch device where all the columns are sortable. What in your opinion works more user-friendly?
Triangle pointing to the sorting direction only in the sorted column
All ...

I am using jquery UI sortable to allow rows in an html table to be sortable. I want to use an icon for a handle and I am trying to figure out what is the best image / icon that would best illustrate ...

Consider a list of text blocks that have an associated numerical "score", such as the list of answers here in ux.stackexchange.com. If the list is sorted by that score, and a user wishes to modify the ...

I have a menu list which is tree-like(So menu items can have children etc.).
I want the user to have the option to move around a menu item in that list. I want them to be able to put the dragged item ...

Here is a screenshot of filters that may be applied to a list of orders. I am interested in sorting them by date, address, etc. However, the (A-Z) and (Z-A) labels are not suitable for data types such ...

I was wondering, what would be the best way to sort website's navigation bar for the best user experience?
Should the user read about me first, information or go directly to see the Services?
Which ...

I have a data table that can sort/filter columns, but there are certain columns that can't be sorted or filtered. I'm trying to find the best way to indicate to users which columns they are with the ...

I'm developing a CRM software for my company, and I'm currently working on the third major release. The CRM handles lot's of items(customer problems, long-running projects, daily/weekly tasks etc.), ...

I want to create a quick survey in Amazon Mechanical Turk for an image sorting task, say from brighter to darker images. I know that I can even create an external website and design a drag-and-drop ...

I'm working on a portfolio management system at an investment company, which will include a list of stocks held and their attributes such as name, issuer, market price, value etc. These will be listed ...

When the user enters some tags, should we sort them alphabetically the next time (s)he visits the page or should we preserve their original order?
There is no domain context in which these tags are ...

I've created a a form that generate a list of results in a table.
I'd to know if it's interesting to number each row of table, the default number of row is 20. there is a pagination too. 20 results ...

Let me give a hypothetical situation on A/B testing a ranking algorithm. Say I'm in charge of the popularity ranking algorithm on Youtube. I need to surface the most interesting videos to top of the ...

We are building an image hosting and sharing website, there will be a page where user can see all photos uploaded by website users.
In this page the user can sort the photos by votes, most comments, ...

I want to add the ability to specify a default sort to this interface. Currently it allows users to specify the order of the columns display and the default size. I am revamping it into a table form ...